Poul Anderson is, and mayhaps always will be, the speculative fiction writer who most integrates myth and legend into fantasy and sci...

It’s tempting to call The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke’s magnum opus .   Containing bits and pieces of nearly everything t...

William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive , the concluding volume to his influential Sprawl series, saw several of the main characters living wi...

After what might be understated as active output in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov took a bit of a breather, waiting more than a decade to p...

Joe Haldeman’s 1974 The Forever War and 1997 Forever Peace were huge successes for the author, winning many of science fiction’s mo...

Mars has been a subject of science fiction since before the genre became a fixture:   Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Philip ...

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most influential writers of science fiction.  His quiet optimism, faith in science, and ability to tell ...

I had never read a David Brin book.   Hearing his background was in math, physics, astronomy, etc., I went about buying one of his bo...

Standing at night, looking up at the glowing white face of the moon, we might ask: what is it comprised of?  We’ve all seen the lunar land...

The front cover of Alastair Reynolds 2006 Galactic North boldly declares the author to be “A master singer of the space opera.”  Cracking ...

Wow.  I’m stumped.  At its most fundamental, Frederik Pohl’s 1982 Starburst is like a cluster... bomb exploding, pieces scattering in all d...

There are specific moments in literary history that define future generations.  Neuromancer is one. As The Lord of the Rings was a waters...

The ideas of numerology, encryption, and early computer infrastructure came to life in Stephenson’s 2001 Cryptonomicon .  Quicksilver – and...

(This review has also been posted at www.fantasyliterature.com .) A sturdy home in the burbs seems ...

Over the top villain. Check.  Strange and funny alien races.  Check.  Quest for singular object that lea...

I’m willing to bear with a writer when their style is less than polished if they have – or seem to have –...